Automated port at Boquillas to open soon

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Guadalupe Davila, 56, draws water from a well in Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico on Wednesday, July 21, 2004. Although the town has a water tower built by the government, Davila uses the well because residents have to pitch in $5 dollars a month for gasoline to run the pump. The town' main source of income, American tourists crossing the Rio Grande from Big Bend National Park, stopped after the Federal government closed the border in May 2002 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Guadalupe Davila, 56, draws water from a well in Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico on Wednesday, July 21, 2004. Although the town has a water tower built by the government, Davila uses the well because residents have to pitch in $5 dollars a month for gasoline to run the pump. The town' main source of income, American tourists crossing the Rio Grande from Big Bend National Park, stopped after the Federal government closed the border in May 2002 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.